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131748P.pdf 03/11/2015 United States v. Arthur Chappell
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-1748
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Smith and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. For the court's prior opinion remanding the
case for a new trial based on an error in the jury instructions, see U.S.
v. Chappell, 665 F.3d 1012 (8th Cir. 2012). On remand, the district court
did not abuse its discretion by denying defendant's motion to reopen the
record on the issue of probable cause for defendant's arrest; police had
probable cause to arrest defendant even if the issue were reopened; claim
of vindictive prosecution rejected, as the new charges added after remand
concern different criminal acts against mostly difference victims.